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Eucalypts under tlie name, corroboration is required before definitely 

 placing the name of this species as Victorian. The nearest record 

 I can trace to it is from Deal Island, Bass Straits, in Nat. Herbar. Coll. 

 by Field Nat. Club, 1890. 



Eucalyptus pilularis, Smith. — This species is recorded from Mt. 

 Macedon, C. Walter (Maiden's Crit. Rev. Euc, p. 38). Mr. P. R. H. 

 St. John informs me he has collected it in East Gippsland. 



Eucalyptus piperita, Smith. — The outlines of fruits figured by 

 Howitt in his Gippsland Eucalypts match those of the New South 

 Wales' species, but the name " White Stringy bark " is suggestive that 

 it may be E. eugenioides, for wherever found in New South Wales, the 

 name " Peppermint " is generally applied to E. piperita. There is a 

 specimen of each in the same paper of Howitt in the National Her- 

 barium, Melbourne. 



Eucalyptus amygdalina, Labill. — In a paper recently read before 

 the Royal Society of Tasmania, by R. T. Baker and H. G. Smith, it 

 is shown that E. amygdalina, Labill., of Tasmania, upon which the 

 species is founded, is not identical with the tree of the mainland, which 

 has for long been so regarded. A comparison of the fruits alone is 

 sufficient to mark specific difference, and the chemistry of the oils 

 shows also a differentiation. Specimens of both forms are to be found 

 in the National Herbarium from various Victorian localities and 

 Howitt, writing under this species in his Eucalypts of Gippsland 

 (Trans. Roy. Soc. Vic, Vol. II., p. 1), states this is one of the most 

 variable of the Gippsland Eucalypts, and gives six varieties, which are 

 now known to include amongst others, such species as E. regnans, 

 E. dives, E. radiata. His variety (c) appears to me to be this species. 



Eucalyptus amygdalina, Labill., var. Australiana, R. T, B. et 

 H. G. S. (Roy. Soc. Tas., 1912).— This is Howitt's variety {he. cit.) 

 {a), " The ordinary narrow-leaved variety." He differentiates the two 

 both in figure and letterpress. 



Eucalyptus vitrea, R. T. B. — Recorded from Eltham, Victoria, 

 by Mr. P. R. H. St. John, Victorian Naturalist, October, 1910. 



Eucalyptus dives, Schau. — This is the broad-leaved variety (6) of 

 E. amygdalina, of Howitt, in his Gippsland Eucalypts (loc. cit.), but 

 it was first recorded under its true specific name for Victoria by J. H. 

 Maiden (Vict. Nat., XVIIL, 124), It has been collected near Ballarat 

 by Mr. R. H. Cambage. Grampians, H. B. Williamson. It appears 

 to be generally distributed throughout the State. 



Eucalyptus radiata, Sieb. — Howitt {loc. cit.) states in connexion 

 with this species, " Compared with samples, for which I am indebted 

 to Dr. Woolls, this appears to be the ' White Gum ' of New South 

 Wales, E. radiata." This appears to be one of those eastern forms of 

 vegetation which are not found any further to the westward than 

 Mitchell River. Another description given under var. (e), Howitt 

 (loc. cit.), E. amygdalina, is this species. It is the " Wang-ngara " of 



